Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 19:02 schrieb Mats Erik Andersson: > Dear All, > > I have now stopped running my two Bering-uClibc > systems > with a loglevel of 'debug', but there is still one way > that my concerns remain. Contrary to the situation on > my Debian Sarge system, Bering continues to write to > the file /var/log/wtmp. Its size exceeds 2MB in less > than a day. For the moment I made an entry into the > 'crontab' to remove wtmp thrice a day. My ignorance > is large in this area, but do I thereby commit a > serious mistake in security matters? Do all you, users > with long experience of Bering, apply another method > to prevent the increase of wtmp? At one instance it > exceeded 4.5MB on my first machine, so using the > default /var/log-size of 2MB is out of the question.
Mats; your pb is somewhere else. A typical wtmp is 1 to 4kb and it's rotated automatically monthly - see /etc/lrp.conf. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
